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Wait, wait, let's step back a bit. After all, the title of this is that Capcom is NOT for sale. Very recently, Capcom announced that they wouldn't renew their takeover defense tactics that they've been doing for a bit. In layman's terms, that means that if some entity gets over 50% of a publicly traded (like Capcom) company's shares in the stock market, they have control over that company. Capcom, up to now, had strategies to prevent that from happening or to dissuade it from happening.

"Despite of non-approval of Renewal of Takeover Defense at the 35th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, Capcom will continue to focus on further preserving and enhancing corporate value and common interests of its shareholders. If there is any large-scale purchaser of Capcom stock, we will react to make necessary measures within the admissible limits of applicable laws and regulations." [Emphasis added]

That is a lot different than "Capcom is for sale." They just decided to stop tactics. They aren't going around to different companies auctioning off different IPs or anything.

So an interested party would have to buy shares off all those people at or above that current price. So some math (divide shares-outstanding by 2 to get 50%, multiply by share price) says... Capcom could be hostilely yours for as little as $578.67 million! Except it doesn't actually work that way. There are all sorts of finance-y corporate valuation models companies use where they guess what the best price is and then they ask to merge/acquire them. I'm not your finance professor, and I doubt you've even had a finance professor before. The point is, is that someone has to go through the effort to actually buy Capcom. And no one wants Capcom itself, people want Capcom's franchises. See? Trade volume for today is average, a few tens of thousands above normal isn't much for planning a takeover. People don't do stock takeovers overnight! And if they were doing a takeover, Capcom still reserves the right to fight against it. Unlike Atlus, Capcom isn't up on the auction block. And do you really think any game company is going to just do a hostile takeover of Capcom? They would do a friendly agreement first. No one is going to want Capcom that bad.

People dream about Mega Man or Ace Attorney or Monster Hunter being Nintendo-exclusive and Nintendo-managed, although Ace Attorney basically already is Nintendo-exclusive.

You'd think based off the Super Smash Bros. 4 invitational tournament that Nintendo fans are bigger fans of Mega Man than Mario. Hopefully, that's actually true. Regardless, while Capcom's franchises would be in a happier place under Nintendo's wing, they would probably be in happier places in almost anyone else's, too. Sorry Capcom. I still love you!

In a few weeks, probably two, there will be an event to ask Capcom to localize Ace Attorney Investigations 2 to North America. Would a Nintendo-run Capcom listen to us?

Probably not. Still, we'd be the first ones cheering if that happened.

I'd like to point attention to two things now:1. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/55442. http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_capcom/go/thread/view/7371/30286763/capcom-will-you-please-sale-to-2k-games?post_num=28#540011219

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